Large oblong folio, complete with ten hand-coloured aquatint plates, plus title page / chart; plates with double gilt rule and mounted. Preserved in a modern cloth drop-spine box, with matching red morocco title label to upper cover and spine. A VERY RARE SERIES OF PLATES. The Prince of Wales Island, or Pooloo Pinang, is known simply as Penang. The British flag was raised there on 11th Aug 1786 by Capt. Francis Light. Light had married the King of Quedah's daughter, and the island was her dowry. Their son, William, was the founder of the Australian city of Adelaide, and their daughter married Col. James Walsh, author of Military Reminiscences (1830). All the dedicatees within this work were Fellows of the Royal Society. Coloured plates in order: 1. Panoramic Sketch of Prince of Wales Island and the opposite Malayan shore. Viewed from Mid-Channel (title / chart). 2. View of the Cascade. 3. View of the Great Tree. 4. View of Strawberry Hill. 5. View of Suffolk House. 6. View from Glugor House and Spice Plantations. 7. View of North Beach from the Council House. 8. View from Halliburton's Hill. 9. View from the Convalescent Bungalow. 10. View from Mount Erskine and Pulo Ticoose Bay. 11. View of the Chinese Mills, Penang.